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The Holocaust. Economic growth. Hezbollah. Iran. Sanctions. UN. Settlement freeze. These were some of the topics discussed a roundtable event here in Zurich as part of a Keren Hayessod 90th anniversary celebration. The participants included former US ambassador Stuart Eizenstat and Ronen Bergmann, a Cambridge-educated Israeli journalist.
Now Eizenstat is sort of infamous in Switzerland. He’s [...]
An expression used in arts and literature, the French fin de siècle translates to “end of the century”; it connotes the waning years of an era, while also heralding change. Usually used in reference to late 19th century France, at its core, fin de siècle means tumult, progress, development.
But what about fin de décade? (To [...]
It’s always natural at the end of the year to reflect on the previous 12 months. This year’s “a look back” is more pronounced than most Decembers, what with it also being the end of a decade, and the end of the first decade of the third millennium to boot. How did the many monumental [...]
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